Panel mounting clips



y 1970 B. R. HOLLANDER 3,514,063

PANEL MOUNTING CLIPS Filed July 16, 1968 EH17 1Q. Hum/05R United StatesPatent 3,514,063 PANEL MOUNTING CLIPS Betty R. Hollander, Stamford,Conn., assignor to Omega Engineering, Inc., a corporation of DelawareFiled July 16, 1968, Ser. No. 745,146 Int. Cl. A47f /00 US. Cl. 248-3091 Claim ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A clip for use in the mounting, on apanel, of a socket such as a thermo-couple socket comprises asingle-piece body of sheet metal including a front wall and a base wallprojecting at a right angle from an edge of said front wall, said frontwall "being apertured to receive a front portion of the socket andhaving other openings to receive means for attachment of the clip to apanel, and said base wall having an opening to receive means forattachment of the socket to the clip, a modification having a top wallprojecting parallel to the base wa l from an opposed edge of the frontwall.

The present invention relates to panel-mounting clips, its object beingto provide improvements in such clips primarily intended for thepanel-mounting of thermocouple sockets.

According to the present invention, a clip for use in the mounting of adevice such as a thermocouple socket, on a panel, comprises, asingle-piece body of sheet metal including a front wall and at least abase wall projecting at a right angle from an edge of said front wall,said front wall being apertured to receive a front portion of thesocket, said front wall having other openings to receive means forattachment of the clip to a panel, and said base wall having an openingto receive means for attachment of the socket to the clip.

In a first form, said single-piece body further includes a top wallparallel to and spaced from the base wall and projecting at a rightangle from an opposed edge of said front wall, and the top wall includesan opening positioned to correspond with the opening of the base wall toreceive the means for attachment of the socket to the clip.

In a second form, the clip has only the base wall and said base wall hasother openings intended to receive other means for attachment of thesocket to be mounted, for example other assembly screws of athermo-couple socket.

The openings in the front wa l may be threaded for engagement by metalscrews intended to retain the clip in assembly with a panel, or may beplain holes for metal screws or bolts to pass through.

The opening in the base wall may be threaded to receive a metal screwintended to engage through the socket to retain the socket in assemblywith the clip.

The base wall may have other openings to receive metal assembly screwsof a socket.

In order that the nature of the invention may be readily ascertained,two embodiments of socket clip in accordance therewith are hereinafterparticularly described with reference to the figures of the accompanyingdrawing, wherein:

FIG. 1 is a perspective front elevation of a first embodiment of clip,having a socket assembled in it;

Patented May 26, 1970 ice FIG. 2 is a side elevation thereof;

FIG. 3 is a front elevation thereof;

FIG. 4 is an underplan view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a perspective front elevation of a second embodiment of clip.

Referring to FIGS. 1 to 4, the clip consists of a single piece ofsuitable metal sheet bent up and stamped out so as to provide arectangular front wall 1, and an approximately equilateral triangulartop wall 2 and a spaced parallel base wall 3 of similar shape to saidtop wall, both projecting at a right angle from opposed edges of thefront wall. The clip is intended for the mounting of a thermocouplesocket behind a panel (not shown). The clip is shown assembled with athermocouple socket 4, the details of which are not part of the presentinvention. The front wall 1 of the clip is rectangularly apertured at 5so that the front end of the socket 4 may protrude slightly through thefront wall, and it is to be assumed that the panel, to which theassembly is to be mounted, wou d be similarly apertured appropriately toreceive and to give access to the socket 4.

At each side, in its front wall 1, the clip has threaded openingspositioned on a median line between said opposed edges to receive ametal screw 6 adapted to be engaged through corresponding openings inthe panel so as to mount the clip on the panel.

The socket is retained in assembly with the clip by means of a metalscrew 7 which passes freely through an opening disposed adjacent theapex of the top wall 2 of the clip, and through the body of the socket,and engages into a threaded opening 8 in the base Wall 3 of the clip.Other screws 7a serve to retain the socket body assembled.

Referring now to FIG. 5 of the drawings, the second embodiment of clipconsists of a single piece of suitable metal sheet bent up and stampedout so as to provide a rectangular front Wall 9 and a trapezium shapedbase wall 10 projecting at a right angle from an edge of said frontwall.

The front wall is rectangularly apertured at 11 so that the front end ofa socket 12, seen in broken line, may protrude slightly through thefront wall.

At each side of the front aperture 11, the front Wall 9 has plainopenings 13 arranged on a median line parallel to said edge, to receivea metal screw for securing the clip to an apertured panel, not shown.

The base wall 10 is provided with an opening 14 on the median line ofthe trapezium, and two other openings 15, 15 spaced symmetricallylaterally and adapted to receive the ends of metal screws 7a alreadypresent in the socket (see FIGS. 1 to 4). The openings 15, 15 may bemade plain, as in the construction illustrated, and a nut secured on thescrews 7a at the underside of the base wall 10, or those openings may bethreaded for direct engagement with the screws 7a.

These clips are primarily intended for use with ceramic sockets of thenature illustrated, and the clip of FIG. 5 having a relatively largebase wall 10 offers considerable mechanical reinforcement at hightemperatures, particularly those exceeding 400 F. The material fromwhich the clips are made is preferably a non-oxidising metal such asstainless steel.

The various openings are set at critical distances from each other sothat they will align with the standard screw holes of, for example,different commercially available thermocouple sockets.

I claim:

' 1. A clip for use in themounting on a panel ofa socket, such as athermocouple socket, comprising a single-piece body of sheet metalincluding a rectangular front wall and a base wall projecting at a rightangle from an edge of said front wall, said front wall being aperturedto receive a front portion of the socket, said front wall having otheropenings arranged to receive means for attachment of the clip to apanel, said base wall having an opening to receive means for attachment'of the socket to the clip, a top wall parallel to and spaced from saidbase wall and projecting at a right angle from an opposed edge of saidfront wall, said front wall having a rectangular aperture therein, saidopenings in said front wall being arranged on a median line parallel tosaid edges, said base wall and said top wall being approximatelytriangular shaped and having their respective openings disposed adjacentto the apex of the triangle and said top wall including an openingpositioned to correspond with said opening of the base wall to receivethe means for attach ment of the'socket to the clip.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS FOREIGN PATENTS Great Britain.

MARION PARSONS, JR., Primary Examiner US. Cl. X.R.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION Patent No.3,514,063 May 26, 1970 Betty R. Hollander It is certified that errorappears in the above identified patent and that said Letters Patent arehereby corrected as shmm below:

In the heading to the printed specification, after line 5, insert Claimspriority, application Great Britain, July 19,

1967, 33086 Signed and sealed this 15th day of September 1970.

(SEAL) Attest:

WILLIAM E. SCHUYLER, JR.

Edward M. Fletcher, Jr.

Commissioner of Patents Attesting Officer

